What are the disadvantages of food additives?
I guess it all depends upon what you are calling additives. If you're talking about preservatives, I guess the bad part is that they take the excitement out of eating a slice of bread and then finding it has mold on it. As a kid, store bought bread would turn green in a week if not sooner. Now the stuff can be weeks old and still not be hairy. As far as additives causing cancer and all that stuff, that's a bunch of hooey. If they are FDA approved, they have undergone rigerous testing in the lab as well as in the market place. If they caused all the illnesses the one responder stated, the entire human race in developed counties would all be dead. And as for nutritional defeciencies?? That's what most food additives are, nutritional supplements. What countries in the world have the greatest vitamin and nutritional defeciencies? It's certainly not Europe, America, Japan, Australia and other developed countries where the food is laced withadditives", but rather undeveloped countries in Africa and Asia where locals depend mostly upon locally grown food. Check out historical instances of scurvey and vitamin D defeciencies in people living in the higher latitudes during their long winters. Supplementing milk with vitamin D has basically eradicated the latter, meaning score one for the additives. As far as allergies, some people are allergic to simple, unadulterated peanuts or milk. Those foods could unprocessed and have just come out of the ground or the cow and they'd still be allergic to them. And other individuals are allergic to bee stings, certain insect bites, plant pollens, animal hair or dander and so on, meaning that an allergic reaction has nothing to do withadditives" and everything to do with the individual person's genetic makeup or previous exposure to the allergin.
Autism, cancer, obesity......
check labels. some cause allergies.
adulteration is a very serious crime as:- 1. It increases toxins in body which may lead to paralysis, brain damage, cancer, stomach disorders, abortion, anaemia, atc. 2. It may lead to deficiency of essential nutrients and cause deficiency related diseases.
